ADRIAN — A not guilty plea was entered Wednesday for an Adrian woman accused of conspiracy in a near-fatal assault on her father last month at his home. Jessica Mae-Ann Tabernero, 23, was scheduled for a hearing on Feb. 27 in Lenawee County Circuit Court.

Tabernero and a 47-year-old ex-convict living at Manitou Beach were charged in the Dec. 30 assault in Drexel Park, just east of Adrian. The 53-year-old victim, apparently left for dead, was found by a neighbor who heard him call for help late that morning. He was admitted to a Toledo hospital in critical condition.

There is still an active investigation in the assault and conspiracy case, said Lenawee County Prosecutor Burke Castleberry. No comments are being made at this time about a possible motive or the injuries the victim suffered, Castleberry said.

Tabernero remains in jail in lieu of a $500,000 bond. She faces a single count of conspiracy to commit assault with intent to do great bodily harm, a felony carrying a maximum 10-year prison term. The second suspect, James Graham Cooper Jr., is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, assault with intent to murder, torture and first-degree home invasion. He is being held without bond pending a preliminary examination scheduled for Feb. 7 in district court.